On Our Radar: Payless Shoes Hot Off the Runways!

Payless' designer shoe collaborations have been such a success in the past, that they're doing it again for Spring 2008. In addition to Lela Rose and Abaete who have worked with Payless for the past couple of seasons, Fab favorite Alice + Olivia has been added to the roster.

The shoes for Spring debuted at New York Fashion Week just last week: Alice + Olivia has six funky and modern styles inspired by Alice in Wonderland, Lela Rose has eight styles based on the two Hepburns (sporty Katherine and glamorous Audrey), and Abaete has shoes in bold Miami hues.

I really like the white pair with the flower by Abaete. But I can never seem to find the cute shoes in the actual stores themselves. I could always order offline but that seems like too much effort for cheaply made shoes. Plus Playless' shoe sizing is always so screwy, sometimes it's a 5 and others a 6.5. Not worth it in the long run.

All 3 of those collections look like standard Payless fare to me, so I don’t really see the point in them. I bought a pair of Abaete boots early in the collection that were nice, and I really like a few of the pairs that Lela Rose just put out but none of these collections look like anyone put much effort into them.

The Lela Rose shoes that are at Payless now are very cute. But I never buy them because they don't use real leather, so the shoes are not very comfortable. That said, the ones on the runway are very cute!

I've never had a problem with my payless pairs. I also have the heel slip issue. Bought a smaller size of a real cute pair with a wooden heel and had to give them away because they were painful to wear. Like, can't walk for more than two steps painful. :(

Jessie M- I always have that trouble especially when I wear peep toe shoes....my heel always slips off the back. I use these little squishy pad things that go under the ball of my toe and it keeps my heel from slipping. They also have some heel squishy as well. Hope that helps!